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Blakelock, Ralph Albert. 



Born, New York, 1847. Self-taught. Honorable mention, Paris Exp. 

 1900. Specialty, landscapes. 



AT NATURE'S MIRROR. 

 Signed. On canvas, 16 H., 23K W. 



THE CANOE BUILDERS. 

 Signed. On canvas, 26^ H., 36K W. 



MOONRISE. 



Signed. On panel, 15X H., 23^ W. 



SUNSET, NAVARRO RIDGE, CALIFORNIA COAST. 

 Signed. On canvas, 35K H., 55 >^ W. 



Blum, Robert Frederick. 



Born, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1857; died, 1904. Studied at McMicken 

 School, Cincinnati; Penn. Acad. Fine Arts and in Paris. Represented 

 at several exhibitions and was awarded bronze, silver, and gold medals. 

 Besides painting in oil and water color, he engaged in illustrative work, 

 and subsequently took up mural decoration, his first serious effort in 

 this line being the Moods 0} Music in Mendelssohn Hall, New York, 

 begun in 1893. N. A. 1893; member Soc. Amer. Artists; Amer. Water 

 Color Society; Mural Painters. 



CANAL IN VENICE, SAN TROVASO QUARTER. 



On canvas, 34 H., 23 W. 



BoGERT, George H. 



Born, New York, 1864. Pupil of National Academy of Design and 

 of Puvis de Chavannes, Aim6 Morot, and E. Boudin in Paris. Honorable 

 mention, Penn. Acad. Fine Arts, 1892; Webb prize, Soc. Amer. Artists, 

 1898; first Hallgarten prize, Nat. Acad. Design, 1899; bronze medal, 

 Paris Exp. 1900, for the painting Sea and Rain; silver medal, Pan- Ameri- 

 can Exp., Buffalo, 1901; gold medal, Amer. Art Soc. Phila. 1902; silver 

 medal, St. Louis Exp. 1904. A. N. A. Specialty, landscapes. Studio, 

 New York. 



SEA AND RAIN. 

 Signed and dated, 1893. On canvas, 29^ H., 44^^ W. 



Brush, George de Forest. 



Born, Shelby ville, Tenn., September 28, 1855. Pupil of G6r6me in 

 Paris. First Hallgarten prize, Nat. Acad. Design, 1888; medal, Colum- 

 bian Exp., Chicago, 1893; Temple gold medal, Penn. Acad. Fine Arts, 



